Gulfport, MS Photos

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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/16/17


Great Blue Heron	Horseshoe crab	Killdeer	Same Killdeer	Marbled Godwit


Marbled Godwit	Semi-palmated Plover	Same Semi-palmated Plover

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/15/17


Ruddy Turnstone	Marbled Godwits and other birds, maybe Willets	Juvie Brown Pelican	Dog


Black Skimmers

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/14/17


Common Buckeye	Gulf Fritillary	Same Gulf Fritillary	Lilies	Little Yellow


Long-tailed Skipper

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/13/17


Semi-palmated Plover	Ruddy Turnstone	Marbled Godwit	Lobster/crayfish skeleton?


Great Blue Heron	Great Blue Heron	Black Skimmers

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/12/17


American Snout (at the beach)	Drooping Autumn Crocus	Black Skimmer	Black Skimmer	Common Starlings


Black Skimmers and gulls in the process of moving to a new spot on the beach	Mostly Black Skimmers	Black Skimmers and gulls


Cloudless Sulphur on a Turk's Cap	Great Blue Heron and gulls	Gulf Fritillary	Another Gulf Fritillary on a Turk's Cap	Gulf Fritillary


Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus)	Gulls and Marbled Godwit	Plover?	Semi-palmated Plover


Snowy Egret flushing out at least four and maybe six fish	Same Snowy Egret flushing out three fish	Flying terns


Terns, Black Skimmer, gulls and a a large bird that looks like a Black Skimmer/gull hybrid	Terns and a few Black Skimmers moving


Verbena on grass median	White Winged Dove

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/11/17


Huge cargo ship headed for the port	Scarlet-bodied Wasp Moth (Cosmosoma myrodora), which had flown inside	Gulf Fritillary on a Firewheel flower	Gulf Fritillary on asters	Gulf Fritillary on another Firewheel


White Pelicans, which never returned after this evening

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/18/15


Common Buckeye	Willet	Mole cricket nymph, rescued from street

Jones Park, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/18/15


Killdeer	Diving Forster's Tern	Ruddy Turnstone	Gulf Fritillary	Forster's Tern

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/17/15


Sunrise	Blue Jay

Jones Park, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/16/15


The marina, with a lighthouse with ladder access

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/15/15


Black Skimmers	Black Skimmers on a sand bar	Hermit crab	Sanderling


Royal Terns, a Black Skimmer and a gull	Some local color	Felix at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center	Post-mating Common Green Darner pair

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/15/15


Sunset	Forster's Terns	Gull	Black Skimmer


Variegated Meadowhawk	Black Skimmers and Bonaparte's Gulls against Biloxi backdrop	Black Skimmers flying over the ocean	Black Skimmers disturbed on the beach: a man with a dog walked through the middle of them.	Black Skimmers resting on the beach


False Garlic	Great Blue Heron	Ribbons	Little Yellow	Verbena

Durham, NC 10/14/15

10/17/10


Black Skimmer in flight, with unequal upper and lower bill sizes clearly visible	Black Skimmers, Royal Terns and gulls	Black Skimmers and other birds


Black Skimmer in flight, with tail feathers clearly visible	Big bird footprint, with large feather for size comparison	Maybe the bird that made the big footprint. Definitely not a Great Blue Heron.

10/16/10


Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole)

10/15/10


Black Skimmer flying over gulls	Black Skimmer doing "skimming," i.e., scooping prey from the water with its lower beak	Skimming by another Black Skimmer	Semipalmated Plover

10/14/10


Black Skimmers in flight	Gulfport sunset	Group of Black Skimmers flying